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After having run for almost 4 years, the current Arcus Global framework is coming to the end of its lifetime and will finish on 9 August 2018.

Under the Jisc Cloud Services portfolio, Jisc now offer the GÉANT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) framework, providing you with an EU directive compliant procurement route to purchase cloud services including AWS.

The GÉANT IaaS Framework facilitates the purchase of IaaS cloud services, including AWS. Azure and cloud services from other providers.

There are 3 suppliers for AWS on the framework. Using the framework, you can make a direct award to any participating supplier. Alternatively, you can run a mini-competition if something other than standard services are required. Jisc apply a 3.5% administration fee for using the framework.

Here are some of the advantages of using the GÉANT framework:

A national compliance due diligence assessment of the framework has been carried out, ensuring its suitability for UK users

Jisc has worked closely with GÉANT to ensure GDPR compliancy

Jisc can assist in obtaining prices from suppliers so that comparisons can be made

The agreement announced by Amazon this week has been supported through ongoing discussions with Jisc in the UK, GÉANT in Europe, and DLT in the United States, who provide network infrastructure and supporting cloud services to education and research institutions around the world.

The Court of Justice of the EU made a judgement recently on 'Safe Harbour' arrangements for the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the USA. Our legal advisers have produceda note about that ruling.

Many thanks to Mike Jones at Jisc MIMAS for sharing his experiences with AWS and Shibboleth.His document covering Adventures in the use of Shibboleth and Amazon Web Service, with a little SAML and OpenLDAP thrown in for good measure, can be found at this link.

Janet's peering arrangement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will provide managed bandwidth for Janet members connecting to the AWS cloud, upon which institutions can leverage the flexible, pay as you go AWS Direct Connect service.

The Portal will enable users in the Janet community to procure AWS cloud services with new, additional benefits including: